In this world of dream-forms Awake only for seconds at a time Is there an end to this suffering This incomprehensible longing Of my every cell to burst open And become boundless water again Is there such a thing as pain In this default state of alertness I let every fibre of my being twitch With a force almost nuclear Until there is but a whirlwind of chaos Destructive and devouring A hunger that feeds upon itself Self-perpetuating Self-habituating otherness Amounting to everything and nothing at all And from this place of nothingness I carry with me the depth of the oceans The spirits of killer whales The forcefulness of wind The darkness of the wisest minds That dwell beneath the earth Seared into my glass-like skin The mark of wilderness itself
The sand smells of algae and blood As it clings to our exposed bodies Sharp and soaked with eternal lust It speaks to the wilderness Carefully concealed within our souls A whisper from the down below As we float freely, weightless and young again On the surface of the sea, powerful and raw Submerge with me into it guilt-free Feel the substance that has been feeding us All along Our flesh may rot and dissolve All pretence cleaned from it by the unforgiving salt But our very selves will be reborn Beneath the roaring waves We’ll continue living anew Mixed with the molecules of other corpses And all human-made will be swallowed Taken away by the careless currents We’ll swim, until the end of time We will roam, our minds filled with courage Into the cold embrace of the unknown
It's only mid-summer And I can already see how trees will wither Their leaves yellow Rotting in mid-air while they fall Unaware of giants that used to hold them The snow has melted recently But I already imagine it storming in Covering the autumn's death in white Chilling the sandy shores Where naked feet still burn today The cycles they keep on turning Why do the living bother With this endless struggle to keep up with time Forced by laws they’ll never understand Animating their skins through the landscape I can already smell the cold wind I can already feel its fingers Caress the goosebumps on my confused skin Animals will stockpile what they can And humans will pretend another spring is sure to come Oblivious to being mortal I can already hear the funeral drums I can see flesh pealing off the crumbling bones And the seasons will keep on going No matter if a soul marvels at their dance
Unwanted Your very soul feels fouled Stained by what you do not see Labelled for disposal You plead but no love ever comes Unneeded You alone brave the churning seas Always on the brink Loneliness breeds insanity And the world spins backwards Blinded Never taught how to relate Where they end and you begin Paranoia settles in In place of human feeling Unwanted And by yourself you always walk The night sings its lullabies The earth itself puts you to sleep So cold and incredibly ancient Abandoned With no ground under your feet In mercy of wild animals Eaten and beaten You regrow each day more deformed Into the image of your makers So break the tainted chain Tear your dirty skin off Bleed out the hate and the pain Still unwanted Still unneeded Still alone
I’ve said goodbye To the small buildings made of concrete and hate To the burning metal fences And mountains silent in their disbelief I’ve said goodbye To the darkness lingering in human hearts To the artificial light That shames all honest and all good I’ve said goodbye To the littleness of assimilated minds To the suspicious eyes To the stares that hurt the innocents And I am no more A participant in your dance Of self-sustaining sorrow No more a part of Your terrible sickness cycle
The shell is light gray And bones protrude it all wing-like Disfigured by age and by strife Frail hair have been pulled out And burned down by ghostly beings Liquified brain matter Flows out of me and through me It mixes with downpour of the rain Its stench toxic in the air of dusk I made holes all over my skin To feed nightmares normally hidden from sight Demons and demigods May enter me and leave as they please I watch them without fear Our pact of pain and pleasure sealed with blood My sins give birth to wild animals My mind and dirt have become one Shadows of my darkness conceal the sun My life never-ending My death comes and goes with blink of an eye Hate and anger Love and contempt Emotions too raw to carry names Too human to matter at all
A lesson about letting go by Elendurwen, literature
Literature
A lesson about letting go
Rocks know about the earthly burdens And water speaks about the soul Today I'll learn from the ocean The ancient art of letting go The salty pleasure of having no taste And no eyes to distract the sight In blackened depths dancing slowly With brilliant rays of penetrating light Feeling the strangeness of a nearby shore Exchanging fluids and organisms In misty distance being endless Letting sand fall and sleep below Content with being calm Content with thrusting self angrily upon stone Timeless sea, will you not show me more While I can still comprehend your speech For what lurks inside this human chest Is numbing and not of me at all With face terrible and evil Its twisted heart hungry for control It hoards life and fear like trinkets And breeds them into horrors Monstrosities of hate and devourers of joy Only the shapeless can escape its thrall So I have to shed my own constructed form And become like the waves in motion Not afraid to loose what was once before They tell us we
I cannot trust these muscles To carry me where I need to go When my mind feels so endless Like it could cover mountains and the shore I cannot rely on these lungs To pay for the oxygen I owe As my chest hyperventilates Pushing me away from my core I cannot use my fingers When they tingle, all electric Charged with neural energy Me a battery of chaotic storm I cannot trust my brain To keep itself from spilling out A constant swirl of rotting matter A boiling surface of an agitated mind Will I devour the world Or will it swallow me with no mercy If only I could stop convulsing To make peace with it again
Worms and spiders crawling backwards Into the fracture of sweet despair An infection for the brain It flows through the skull's hallowed surface It leaks from the eyes not-so-mine Bitter tears left unchecked A yearning for hope that doesn’t come Unconscious Plague of the self-conscious mind It chokes and shakes me The disease that is myself A crack of the skin self-inflicted A rupture for pain to bleed slowly out And this body Can barely hold itself together These dry and hollow bones Scream as they touch the dying muscles Now barely twitching